mimesis

Example Sentences

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I still wonder if this is a kind of clever mimesis.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2018

In victory a kind of mimesis has begun.

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2018

In the same essay, Chaudhuri claimed it was time for the “postmodernist Indian English novel” to reject “a mimesis of form, where the largeness of the book allegorizes the largeness of the country it represents.”

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2016

Their imitation of those desires, which he termed mimesis, is imitated by others in turn, leading to escalating and often destructive competition.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2015

The word mimesis means the action or doing of a person called a mime.

From Ancient Art and Ritual by Harrison, Jane Ellen